On 9/5/2011 3:04 PM, Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
William Gill wrote:
Not to split hairs, but syntactically f(x) is a function in many
programming paradigms.
As I understand it functional programming places specific requirements
on functions, i.e.referential transparency. So f(x) may or may no
On 9/5/2011 1:45 PM, William Gill wrote:
On 9/4/2011 9:13 AM, rusi wrote:
On Sep 3, 9:15 pm, William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
programming using objects were someho
William Gill wrote:
Not to split hairs, but syntactically f(x) is a function in many
programming paradigms.
As I understand it functional programming places specific requirements
on functions, i.e.referential transparency. So f(x) may or may not be
"functional".
x.f() is also a function,
On 9/3/2011 12:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
William Gill wrote:
Are they suggesting that any function that takes an object as an
argument should always be a method of that object?
Yes.
I can think of times when a special application, such as a converter,
would take an object as an argumen
On 9/4/2011 9:13 AM, rusi wrote:
On Sep 3, 9:15 pm, William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
Staying with (fo
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/functional.html
>
> What about the entire "Introduction" section, which starts with this
> statement?
>
> "This section explains the basic concept of functional programming"
>
> If you would like to suggest i
On 9/4/2011 7:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
William Gill wrote:
The source of my error is "Functional Programming HOWTO
(/python-3.1.3-docs-html/howto/functional.html)"
For those who don't have access to William's local file system, I expect
he's looking at this:
http://docs.python.org/relea
William Gill wrote:
> The source of my error is "Functional Programming HOWTO
> (/python-3.1.3-docs-html/howto/functional.html)"
For those who don't have access to William's local file system, I expect
he's looking at this:
http://docs.python.org/release/3.1.3/howto/functional.html
or the most
On 9/4/2011 2:32 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 9/4/2011 4:13 AM, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
Ian Kelly wrote:
Functional programming is about using functions in the *mathematical*
sense. A mathematical function maps one value (or tuple of values) to
another value. The mapped value never varies; if
On 9/4/2011 4:13 AM, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
Ian Kelly wrote:
Functional programming is about using functions in the *mathematical*
sense. A mathematical function maps one value (or tuple of values) to
another value. The mapped value never varies; if it did, it would be
a different functi
On Sep 3, 9:15 pm, William Gill wrote:
> During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
> across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
> programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
Staying with (for the moment) the suggestion th
tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> I think there may be another issue here. If someone says "functional
> programming" to me then I would generally assume that they *do* mean
> "programming using functions".
Strictly speaking you are correct, "functional programming" does
mean "programming using func
Progranming with functions vs Progranming with objects sounds like C vs. C++
more than functional programming vs. OO programming
On 4 September 2011 04:18, William Gill wrote:
> On 9/3/2011 9:51 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
>
>>
>> It is possible that our doc was less than crystal clear. We are
>> con
Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:15 AM, William Gill wrote:
> > During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
> > across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
> > programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
> >
> >
On 9/3/2011 9:51 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
It is possible that our doc was less than crystal clear. We are
constantly improving it where we can see fixable faults. If you run
across whatever it was and it still seems a bit muddy, post something
again.
Will do.
Thanks.
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On 9/3/2011 5:34 PM, William Gill wrote:
On 9/3/2011 3:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation
Ours, or someone else's?
Python.
Since in Python, everything is an object, that would mean th
On 9/3/2011 5:39 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
William Gill writes:
On 9/3/2011 3:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I
came across documentation
Ours, or someone else's?
Python.
Can you show exactly where in the Pytho
William Gill writes:
> On 9/3/2011 3:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> >> William Gill wrote:
> >>
> >>> During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I
> >>> came across documentation
> >
> > Ours, or someone else's?
>
> Python.
Can you show exactly where in the Python documentatio
On 9/3/2011 3:15 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation
Ours, or someone else's?
Python.
Since in Python, everything is an object, that would mean that every
function has to be a method, whic
On 9/3/2011 2:50 PM, Ian Kelly wrote:
I think you may be confusing "functional programming" and "programming
using functions". These are not the same thing.
I think you may be right, Ian. It didn't make much sense
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On 9/3/2011 12:29 PM, MRAB wrote:
I think you mean "complementary". :-)
How polite of you to point out my spelling deficiency. I guess
shouldn't be watching football while typing (I'm sure the beer didn't
help either).
I think that it's all about "state".
In functional programming, there's
On 9/3/2011 12:25 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation
Ours, or someone else's?
that suggests that programming using functions, and
programming using objects were somehow opposing techniqu
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:15 AM, William Gill wrote:
> During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
> across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
> programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
>
> It seems to me that they are c
William Gill wrote:
> During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
> across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
> programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
>
> It seems to me that they are complimentary. It makes sense to
On 03/09/2011 17:15, William Gill wrote:
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I
came across documentation that suggests that programming using
functions, and programming using objects were somehow opposing
techniques.
It seems to me that they are complimentary.
I th
During some recent research, and re-familiarization with Python, I came
across documentation that suggests that programming using functions, and
programming using objects were somehow opposing techniques.
It seems to me that they are complimentary. It makes sense to create
objects and have so
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